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White House Press Corps Abruptly Evicted from Melia Hanoi Hotel to Make Room for Kim Jong Un
The White House Press Corps was evicted abruptly from the Melia Hanoi Hotel where they had a workspace set up and many were staying — because Kim Jong Un decided he wanted to stay there.
#KimJongUn arriving In Hanoi Melia Hotel. pic.twitter.com/4n2D9qoRzZ
— ChiaChieh(Jane)Tang (@goodaylala) February 26, 2019
NBC News reported: ‘The Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted Tuesday morning that the reporters who cover Trump would be relocated from their planned staging ground at the Melia Hotel — including a 200-seat ballroom and stand-up spots for broadcast reporters — to an international media center. “You must go now! This way,” a Vietnamese security officer barked at members of the press corps in the hotel lobby Tuesday morning. The forced move was highly unusual because the White House had approved of and supported the use of the space by media who cover the president.’
Reuters reported: ‘South Korean media and experts hailed it as a “heroic” and “deliberate strategy” for Kim to reveal more of himself to the American press. “By exposing his every move to American cameras, Kim Jong Un may be signalling that he is determined to send a strong message about his will to improve ties with the United States,” Cheong Seong-chang, a North Korea expert at the Sejong Institute, said before Kim arrived.’
That rumored strategy was foiled when the American journalists were forced out by the Vietnamese foreign ministry.
FYI:
the American Media Center will be relocated from Melia hotel to International Media Center at 91 Tran Hung Dao Hanoi#DPRKUSA #HanoiSummit— MoFAVietNam Spokesperson (@PressDept_MoFA) February 26, 2019
Though some journalists had a different take. CNN’s Jim Acosta said the North Korean delegation wasn’t happy to have the Americans at the hotel.
The North Koreans were clearly not happy the American press was set up at the Melia Hotel in Hanoi. As we had heard earlier, Kim Jong Un is staying at the hotel. He just arrived per @Kevinliptakcnn and @AlliemalCNN t.co/0MnU8VASQT
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) February 26, 2019
Reuters added: “With less than 24 hours notice, the White House press pool was instead relocated to a shared working space set up for visiting journalists at the Viet Xo Friendship Cultural Labour Palace, a giant Soviet-era edifice a few blocks from the Melia. It was not clear what happened to the journalists who had booked to stay in the Melia.”
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White House Press Corps Abruptly Evicted from Melia Hanoi Hotel to Make Room for Kim Jong Un
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